An insight into the implications from the Lancashire Care NHSFT and Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHSFT v Lancashire County Council case.

The Department of Health and Social Care has amended the National Framework for NHS Continuing Healthcare and NHS Funded Nursing Care and issued a new version of the framework in March 2018.

There are some cases where the facts are such that erasure of a doctor is the only proper and reasonable sanction. Dr Bawa-Garba’s case was not one of them.

Supreme Court upholds decision on withdrawal of CANH in the case of NHS Trust v Y [2018] UKSC 46.

The criminal standard of proof is no longer required for an inquest to determine that a death was as a result of suicide.

The High Court has ruled that an employer cannot continue with disciplinary proceedings against an employee pending resolution of her claim that the proceedings are in breach of her contract of employment.

Court of Appeal has provided some further guidance on what will amount to a "protected disclosure" under the whistleblowing legislation.

Guidance issued changing the way public funding for representation for families at Article 2 inquests is decided.

Important points to note about the charging regimes and finding the exemptions

The Court of Appeal has provided further clarification on a doctor’s duty to disclose material risks to a patient.

For the first time the Court accepts that certain losses which were considerable but not catastrophic for the losing bidder could still not be adequately compensated by money.

The EAT has found that a Claimant’s summary dismissal, without any existing warnings, was fair even though he had not committed any single act of gross misconduct.